Percentage of Americans who have fired someone from a job, according to a survey by CBS for the game show "Power of Ten": 33

Percentage of Americans who have flown first class: 38

Source: CBS Television Network

POOR CREDIT HURTS

Percentage of Americans who know that it is legal for employers to refuse to hire job applicants with low credit scores, according to a survey released by Visa USA: 20

Percentage of Americans who mistakenly believe it is illegal for prospective employers to use credit scores as a hiring criteria: 52

Source: Visa

PAYING FOR COLLEGE

Percentage of parents who say that paying for their child's college education is at least somewhat important to them, according to a survey conducted for Futuretrust: 91

Percentage of parents who say they have actually saved as much for college as they had planned: 9

Percentage of parents who say that they are absolutely certain they will save enough for their child's college education in the next 10 years: 13

Source: Futuretrust

AMBITIONS

Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have the necessary education and training to get ahead in their current career, according to a 2006 study conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: 57

Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have taken special courses or retraining to improve their job skills: 72

Percentage of Americans who say that they expect home prices in their area to either stay about the same in the next year or drop a little, according to a survey conducted by Reuters/ Zogby: 66.5

Percentage who say that they expect home prices to drop a little: 35.5

Percentage who say that they expect home prices to drop a lot: 8.5

Percentage who say that they expect home prices in their area to increase a lot: 4.2

Source: Zogby International

MORE TEMPS

Percentage of executives who said the use of temporary workers (at one time considered a stopgap measure) now has a place in their overall human resources budgets, according to a survey developed by OfficeTeam: 71

Source: OfficeTeam

MORE FLEXTIME

Percentage of working women with children under 18 who work flexible schedules, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 26

Percentage of working women with children under 18 who worked flexible schedules in 1991: 14

Source: Worth Collection

IDLE THOUGHT

"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their time."